Ghost Writers in the Sky!
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
People don’t write stories about typewriters anymore. Even magical or haunted ones. It’s not surprising. In my collection The Book of the Black Sun I Read More
If you missed the last one… The Bronze Age of Robots is all about franchises. Movies, TV, comic book and especially, TOYS! This is the Read More
In Savage Sword of Conan – The Original Marvel Years Omnibus v01 (2019), Roy Thomas tells how John Buscema did not like Alfred Alcala’s incredible Read More
In a previous post I mentioned DC’s predilection for gorilla covers in a piece on Arthur J. Burk’s “Manape the Mighty”. Well, it’s about time Read More
If you missed the last one… A couple of Golden Age pieces to conclude, before moving onto the much more mundane Silver Age and even Read More
If you missed the last one… The late 1960s and early 1970s was a time of great interest in the Occult and the unexplained. Books Read More
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (1897) was one of his genre-establishing books along with The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau and Read More
The Lovecraftian elements in the early Doctor Strange comics were formative as well as fun to look for. As with all Marvel characters, Doctor Strange Read More
If you missed the last one… The Great Dog of Death and Terror, Yama the Demon King Yama, the Demon-King, he of many arms, is Read More
Robert Bloch’s first comics appeared in unauthorized versions that “borrowed” the ideas from his stories without acknowledging where they came from. A perfect example of Read More